Quotes About Acceptance

I'm fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of 'powerlessness.' Join the club, we are not in control. God is.

Don't get upset with your imperfections. Surrender to the Power of God's Love, which is greater than our weakness.

Do not lose power over the what-ifs of your life. These are unlimited and endless. Keep your power in the now, in present time.

What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?

There is absolutely no point in sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself. The great power you have is to let go ... focus on what you have, no that which has been mean or unkindly removed.

Or, I don't know, how about this: the important thing isn't what's gone or lost, it's seeing and knowing what's still there and how it can grow.

you have to come to terms with the fact that you've really only got yourself in life, and if you don't make yourself happy someone else isn't going to make you happy. Too many people clutch onto someone else, looking for security and acceptance.

I was just growing old enough to start realizing my own limitations, which is the first step to dying, I think.

grief just sits there.

The grief doesn't leave. It becomes a part of you. Either you learn to live with it or you die. ... But grief just sits there.

I think of the internet like my disguise. It's the only place where people don't treat me like I'm either a monster or a charity case to be pitied.

Love is not blind-It sees more and not less, but because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Lord, let me live until I die.

Nothing makes a man broad minded like adversity.

when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time.

Kabat-Zinn writes, "You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

It is not by regretting what is irreparable that true work is to be done, but by making the best of what we are. It is not by complaining that we have not the right tools, but by using well the tools we have. What we are, and where we are is God's providential arrangement - God's doing, though it may be man's misdoing; and the manly and the wise way is to look your disadvantages in the face, and see what can be made our of them.

We were terrified to stop, stop anything, and admit that something was wrong. Activity, frenzied activity, seemed to be the thing we all felt we needed. Only Dad slowed down, and that wasn't until he was trapped in a hospital getting intravenous antibiotics. Everything would be all right, everything would be possible, anything could be salvaged or averted, as long as we all kept running around.

He's also able to accept death. He's not happy about it, but he's perfectly calm. When I stop all this treatment, it will be because it's time to stop.

I realized then that for all of us part of the process of mom's dying was mourning, not just her death, but also the death of our dreams of things to come. You don't really lose the person who has been.

I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time. Yet

A phrase the doctor used had reassured Mom—"treatable but not curable.

You can leave the books that you don't like alone, and let other people read them- ancient scholar Yuan Chunglang

What does one say to someone who has just been diagnosed with such a dire illness?